Diagram of a prism
Date
3 April 1672
Creator
Unknown, Artist
After
Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636 - 1673, French) , Natural philosopher
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol5 p226
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 302mm
width (page): 175mm
width (page): 175mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A diagram in Ignace-Gaston Pardies's objections to Isaac Newton's theory of light and colour, in a letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 3 April 1672 (EL/P1/75/003). Oldenburg sent on Pardies's criticism to Newton on 9 April 1672, and Newton wrote a reply (dated 13 April). Both letters were read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 April 1672, and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 7, no. 84 (June 1672).
This figure was copied from LBO/5/205.
This figure was copied from LBO/5/205.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 18 April 1672, ‘Several letters to Mr. Oldenburg were read. [...] A letter from father Pardies the Jesuit, professor of mathematics in the college of Clermont in Paris, dated there April 9, 1672, N.S. containing some objections against Mr. Newton’s theory of light and colours. A letter from Mr. Newton, dated at Cambridge April 13, 1672, containing an answer to the objection of the said Jesuit’ (Birch, 3:43).
Printed as a woodcut figure in I. G. Pardies 'Newton's theory of light and color', Phil. Trans. vol. 7, no. 84 (June 1672), pp. 4087-90 (p. 4088).
Printed as a woodcut figure in I. G. Pardies 'Newton's theory of light and color', Phil. Trans. vol. 7, no. 84 (June 1672), pp. 4087-90 (p. 4088).
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
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